A teacher assigns a paper and they Google keywords, pull paragraphs from sites, add commentary (fudging their words and others’), then submit the result. It’s the product that counts, not the way it was produced
students experience academic tasks as pointless or overwhelming
cheating is less common in classrooms
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Internet-age students see so many examples of text, music and images copied online without credit that they may not fully understand the idea of plagiarism
35 percent admitted to cheating by cell phone during a test.
1/4 of them texted answers
1/5 searched the Internet
Fully 52 percent admitted to Web-based cheating of one kind or another
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